Category Archives: Education

Here’s another post about school. It’s new and different for us so there’s a lot to share right now. Yesterday Haley came home and said that Wednesdays are her favorite day. Her classes change every day (see below for...

Back to school! Here in Panama we have “summer break” from mid December to early March. Today was the first day of school (4th grade for Zoe, 8th grade for Haley). It’s very strange when the stores move out...

Time for another loop back to a previous post for an update. Today’s topic: homeschool! Or perhaps it should be the broader topic of education. We didn’t move to Panama so the girls could get a world class curriculum....

There was no school today (shocking!) but instead there was a Mother’s Day fiesta. Mother’s Day is on Monday here (I think I’l be celebrating it on both USA and Panama schedules!) and the school sent home a little...

Adventures in schooling continues. Haley is feeling better but she needed one more day to get over her head cold, so Zoe was the only gringa at school today. I decided today would be a good day to walk...

School update, day 2! This morning Haley was wearing street clothes. She insisted that her classmates instructed her to do this, but I was dubious. Turns out it was OK… to BRING street clothes. When she arrived everyone was...

School started today! For real! Zoe was up and energetic very early. School is always so good for her, the extrovert that she is. It was a rare rainy morning (usually whatever rain we have stops by early morning)...

Earlier this week I was told of a local expat from Australia who sends her kids to the local Panamanian school. She was very nice to meet with me yesterday and answer all my questions. She told me of...